I would rather make my name than inherit it.
Names Quotes
Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
I don’t have a bank account, because I don’t know my mother’s maiden name.
Edward Estlin Cummings’ name is often styled “e.e. cummings” in the mistaken belief that the poet legally changed his name to lowercase letters only. Cummings used capital letters only irregularly in his verse and did not object when publishers began lowercasing his name, but he himself capitalized his name in his signature and in the […]
I collect names for characters. Names are valuable; they can be your first source of insight into a character.
This is unfortunately a world in which things find it difficult, frequently impossible, to live up to their names.
Let us make distinctions, call things by the right names.
“How is it you know my name?” – “Knowing names is my job. My art. To weave the magic of a thing, you see, one must find its true name out.”
For when the One Great Scorer comes to mark against your name, He writes – not that you won or lost – but how you played the Game.
If we could get back to personal names, it would do a lot of good. Government is an abstract noun meaning the art and the process of governing and it should be an offense to write it with a capital G or so as to refer to people. If people were in the habit of […]
